Students from Loma Linda Academy helped covert old storage racks from the Radiology Department into roofs for the storage sheds at The Gardens, the Norton Neighborhoods After-School site on Norman Road.

Students from Loma Linda Academy helped covert old storage racks from the Radiology Department into roofs for the storage sheds at The Gardens, the Norton Neighborhoods After-School site on Norman Road.

Students from Loma Linda helped covert old storage racks from the Radiology Department into roofs for the storage sheds at The Gardens, the Norton Neighborhoods After-School site on Norman Road.

Young Kwun (right) a local developer, provides some "vocational mentoring" for several Serrano Middle School boys at The Gardens. A sleepy driver had missed the turn from Norman Road onto Clevenger and plowed through a section of our fence. The boys and Young repaired it!

Dr. Debbie Demos, a pediatric neurologist at LLU Children's Hospital, is volunteering to teach music at the Children's Learning Gardens. The first Wednesday in May, she taught the children to play the recorder. Next time they want to see and hear her violin, one of 14 instrument the doctor can play. She'll also be introducing them to music composition, using computer software in our portable office to help them write and record their own tunes.

Dr. Debbie Demos, a pediatric neurologist from Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, is also an accomplished musician who plays 14 different musical instruments--not counting the antelope horn a Cypress Elementary student is trying out!

V-8 vegatable juice was not the favorite of these two Serrano Middle School students, but they had to drink a little to enjoy the fresh stawberries that were also on the snack menu for the Children's Learning Gardens program. So, on the count of three, and with a cup of water in the other hand, they downed the healthy juice! Many of their classmates and the children from Cypress Elementary School had already drunk their portion, and some even asked for more.

LLU Community Health Nursing students Desirae, Josh, and Rose are working on a number of helpful projects at The Gardens, LLUMC's after-school site in the Valley View neighborhood of San Bernardino (south of Mill, north of the river, between Tippecanoe and Waterman). This week they helped establish benchmarks for the 5-a-Day program (which encourages K-12 students to eat five fruits and vegetables a day.) In the forground is the ready-to-harvest swiss chard in one of our 14 garden boxes.

A San Gorgonio High School student doesn't let baby-sitting her baby sister prevent her from attending the after-school programs at The Gardens. Here she answers the questions of a LLU Community Health Nursing student about how many fruits and vegetables she's eaten in the last 24 hours. (click on the picture to see a larger version).

A Cypress Elementary School student, in his 5-a-Day T-shirt answers Community Health Nursing student Josh Diaz's questions about how many and which fruits and vegetables he's eaten in the last 24 hours. (Click on image for a larger view. 4x6 prints available for participants and their teachers.)

Public Health Students Carine, Janet, and Byron (standing, l-r), taught fitness and good diet to students from Serrano Middle School and area high schools. The program was part of Dr. Patti Herring's Qualitative Research Methods class. Also on the team was Emma (see picture below).

Janet, Emma, and Carine--members of Dr. Patti Herring's Qualitative Research (QRM) Methods class in the LLU School of Public Health, led out in four weeks of "Fun with Fitness" for the middle and high school students at The Gardens. The program fostered physical activity and diet and nutrition improvement. The photographer, Byron, was also a member of the QRM team!